Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Changes to Immigration Enforcement
Almost two weeks ago I read a piece in City Lab that used three maps to look at the changes to immigration enforcement in the first year of the Trump administration. I was taken by this final map in particular. While the map does have some large areas of N/A, it still does show some […]
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The 2017–18 Flu Season
Read on…: The 2017–18 Flu SeasonLast week I covered the Pennsylvania congressional district map changes quite a bit. Consequently I was not able to share a few good pieces of work. Let’s hope nothing goes terribly wrong this week and maybe we can catch up. From last Friday we have this nice piece from FiveThirtyEight looking at the spread of influenza […]
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It’s Friday, Can I Drink Yet?
Read on…: It’s Friday, Can I Drink Yet?Happy Friday, everyone. We made it through to week’s end. And you know what that means. It’s time for a drink. Thanks to one of my best mates for sharing this comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He shared it with the comment: “I now understand your love of gin.” Credit for the piece goes […]
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Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part V
Read on…: Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part VYesterday we looked at the new congressional district map here in Pennsylvania, drawn up by the state supreme court after the Republican legislature and Democratic governor could not come to agreement. Also yesterday, FiveThirtyEight explored the redrawn map in more detail to see if, as I’ve read in a few places, the new map is […]
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Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part IV
Read on…: Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part IVYesterday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court published the new congressional district map of Pennsylvania, the latest chapter in this tale. Republicans in the state legislature have already said they will take this to the federal courts, but they tried that just a few weeks ago and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. So the […]
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More Murder in Merica
Read on…: More Murder in MericaToday’s post was going to be something not this. But it is remarkable how many people die in the United States in mass shootings. It is, generally speaking, not a problem experienced in the rest of the developed world. The question is do we want gun violence to really define American exceptionalism? Anyways, the Washington […]
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Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part III
Read on…: Gerrymandering Pennsylvania Part IIIAlmost a month ago I wrote about how the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was considering a case involving the state’s heavily gerrymandered US congressional districts, which some have called among the worst in the nation. About a week later the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided that the map is in fact so gerrymandered it violates the Pennsylvania […]
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Post-Brexit Trading
Read on…: Post-Brexit TradingOff of yesterday’s piece looking at the potential slowdown in British economic growth post-Brexit, I wanted to look at a piece from the Economist exploring the state of the UK’s current trade deals. I understand what is going on, with the size of the bubbles relating to British exports and the colour to the depth […]
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Brexit Is Bad News for British Regional Growth
Read on…: Brexit Is Bad News for British Regional GrowthA few days ago, a confidential report by the British Treasury was leaked to the press. It confirmed what many had feared, that the economic forecasts for the regions of the UK were not that rosy under different models for different Brexit scenarios. The scenarios looked at the change in growth for regions over the […]